Airbnbs are overrated by this point, they're not cheaper and have more requirements of guests and rules than a hotel.

>>2819697
>>2819719
They only make sense if you're traveling in groups. Otherwise you will spend more money on a worse place with more rules.

But if you're traveling with family or a group of friends they are the only option if you want to stay together.

its really nice to have a kitchen (you can filter on airbnb's website for only places with kitchens)
and really it isn't any more expensive than a motel or hotel if you pick the cheaper listings but there's usually a catch
i.e. the location is weird, you have to climb steps to get to the house or there's a steep driveway involved or the host is a crazy person etc.
but it's nice just paying one price and not having to deal with the "oh you reserved your room 3rd party now you have to pay us a 100-150 deposit) deal

for me I like getting a freezer - motels almost never have freezers and I like ice in my water
and some of them you can get laundry too - though some motels have that

I recommend avoiding listings where the host has a bunch of extra rules or seems insane or there's not clear pictures of every room you will be using or there's no reviews at all.

>>2819721
>Otherwise you will spend more money on a worse place with more rules.
wrong you can get slightly ghetto airbnbs for 75 dollars a night and you absolutely are not getting most hotel rooms for that price
+ airbnb you get the quirk of an odd location or a strange house some of them are interesting
but for whatever fucking reason the showers are usually frustrating - its never just a normal pivoting showerhead its often fixed ones with hand sprayers which spray out the shower door or its mounted way too fucking high or you are trapped in a tiny cubicle etc.
not a problem ive had with motel showers

also, bring your own sponges, toilet paper, and paper towels

>>2819697
I like having a kitchen so i go for airbnb a lot. I never had a bad expierience in the way that I felt I had to leave the flat.
I once booked a cheap flat in a pricy area. The flat was in the basement with only one window(which i knew from the listing). There were cobwebs and stains on the walls. Bathroom and sheets were clean. That was my worst expierience.
I heard way worse stories from friends though

>>2819721
>They only make sense if you're traveling in groups
Or if you're going to a remote location.

Because fuck going to the closest motel 3 hours away from the actual destination you want to go to, the random Chinese container home plopped on the farmer's paddock next door to the cool waterfall is a far better option.

AirBNB is about same price if not more expensive than hotels these days. And there is no service, its often more dirty etc.

Just stick with hotels, avoid the hassle.

Unless you are with a group of 6 people or more

>>2819697
It's so embarrassing taking trannies back to a hotel. Can't stand the judgement and disappointment. Airbnb W for privacy.

>>2819697
>is it not going to be much different?
It's a completely different experience, up to you if it's what you want or not, I prefer them for the privacy and having a full fridge/freezer, but I don't choose the cheapest places and also don't care about hotel "luxury" stuff or amenities (outside restaurants and gyms are always much better than what's at the hotel). Some people prefer having hotel staff on site for security/maintenance/complaints. I also don't travel much in the US where the hosts are neurotic with rules and the first thing I look at on listings is "House Rules" to make sure the host isn't a crazy person.

>>2819785
there's something about being an airbnb host (esp. for room shares) that attracts crazy people

I tend not to rent Airbnbs in US cities with a significant population of black people. The blacks destroy Airbnbs, so it causes the hosts to have to implement insane rules.

In Europe, you can still get a really good deal on an Airbnb, especially in smaller cities, ski towns and in beach towns. It's nice having a condo with multiple rooms, a full size kitchen, fridge, washing machine and dishes if you're staying in one spot for a longer than 3 days. I just stayed in an insanely nice condo in Chamonix for $100/night with all the amenities. I've had great luck in Europe.

>>2819697
What country are you looking to travel in?
If you are a foreigner, staying in an airbnb owner-occupied dwelling can be a great way to meet locals. Contrary to other posters here, I've found airbnb hosts in America to be friendly and well-socialized people. I spent between $52 and $107 per night on my weeklong trip in Colorado, and all the rooms were very clean and well-furnished.
>>2819784
Quite the opposite in America. You can bring a mentally ill street freak back to your motel room, nobody will bat an eye. Sneaking a guest into an airbnb is gonna fall afoul of the rules and get you in trouble.

>>2820345
Traveling in the US, Cali to be specific

>>2820370
California is radically different depending on which part you are going to. L.A. is nothing like San Francisco is nothing like Redwood National Park.

Where are you traveling to?

>>2820391
This is true. In LA, it's probably better to stay in a hotel. There are some bad neighborhoods and you won't know where those are. Oakland is hell on earth. Anaheim is terrible. Fresco and Sacramento are sketchy.

But anything right on the beach would be great for an Airbnb. Lake Tahoe is amazing for Airbnb. San Diego is good for Airbnb. Southern Orange County is great.

>>2820519
I stay in airbnbs in bad hoods all the time. It's fine. Airbnb is bringing back flophouses, except this time there's (usually) digital locks.
Best digital locks: real buttons
medium scenario: the ones with touchpads, it's often hard to swipe them on
worst: lockbox with a key inside
often hard to yank open

you can get cheaper airbnbs if you stay in the ghetto!

Airbnbs are great for stays 7+ days at a time. The benefits are obvious as you generally get a kitchen, a living room of some sort and if you pony up an outdoor space of some kind. Hotels are superior for 2-3 night stays in a city with fuller itineraries.

If you plan on actually spending significant time in your accommodation then yes, Airbnb is better. Even fancy hotels don't encourage you to just sit in your room.

Quick stop in a big city with lots of sight seeing? Hotel. A week in a small village or rural setting? Airbnb

>>2819697
Guy staying in an AirBnB right now in Taipei.

This place is far better than any hotel I've stayed in in Taiwan, and is cheaper. The bed is comfy, the sound insulation prevents all but the loudest street noises from leaking in (ambulance siren, some fucktard on a fart-can motorcycle just now), there's a small kitchen area if I wanna bring leftovers home from some restaurant or try to cook something, it's even got a washer/dryer so I could clean my clothes. There are no maids pounding on my door at 10am to change my sheets to a new set of hotel-washed icky-smelling sheets, there are no cockroaches running around, there are no hotel guests holding a screaming match just down the hall.

I have not seen a single disadvantage to the place itself. The only minor issue is its location, which is hard to get to due to Taiwan's ridiculously shitty urban planning, but you can pick one wherever you want, and maybe you'll have better luck at avoiding the "let's put a wire fence down the middle of the road so that people have to walk literally half a mile out of their way to cross the street" bullshit that is Taiwan at its normal.

Me >>2820583 again
>>2819723
>wrong you can get slightly ghetto airbnbs for 75 dollars a night and you absolutely are not getting most hotel rooms for that price
I'm paying $80, I could get a shit-tier hotel for maybe $50 but probably double that nowadays (last time I even glanced at a hotel price in Taiwan was 2017).

>also, bring your own sponges, toilet paper, and paper towels
This place has all of that. They even left me a bottle of laundry detergent.

>>2820584
they always have shitty sponges not the good yellow and green kind
yes they HAVE toilet paper and paper towels but the quality sucks you are not getting bounty and charmin unless you bring it
>bottle of laundry detergent
again, you need to bring your own if you want unscented, or your clothes will all reek of perfume for weeks

>>2820391
My plan is norcal for half a month and socal for the remaining half. Planning to hit most of the national parks, hang around Mt Shasta for a few days probably, make my way down towards SF along the coast, send some time out by yosemite & skc before heading down to the LA area

I have leaned more towards Airbnb in the past year or two than I have hotels. it's just not worth hotels in most places if staying more than 10 days to jump to airbnb. The only exception is maybe a hostel private room but those dried up too in value.
So tired of
>hotel tourism tax and fee
>SIRS SIRS WE CLEAN ROOM NOW! at 10am even though I don't want it changed that day, twice a week is good enough ffs
>Amenities gone or pay for now so there isn't added value
>chinese tourists yelling at full volume at anywhere between 1-5AM even in the nicer hotels this is becoming more common
>USE OUR HEKKIN APP TO CHECK IN! (it fails) Fuck you Norway and Scandinavia in general for making this the new norm
>Raj at the only hotel you could book for a decent price has no idea how to check you in and fumbles around with what he is suppose to do
>included breakfast is barebones slop usually breaded goods and the "free breakfast" pictures are precovid so your premium for food was wasted
>SORRY SIRS NO CHECK IN UNTIL 4PM(yes I have actually seen it this late in some places)! Oh yes we just updated rules 2 weeks ago sirs, you can pay 1/2 day price to check in early sirs!

9 times out of 10 Airbnb is the better option to just go in and enjoy the place I am visting.

>>2819697
i dont fw airbnb bc i dont trust it or the hosts

>>2819697
Why do Airbnb owners always include random city pictures in the listing? This needs to stop. I don't need to see 3 Big Ben pictures on the listing when I'm just looking for a bed in London.

>>2822955
as a warning not to book that one cuz the owners are crazy and can't hide it fully

>>2822955
same reason fat/ugly girls put pictures of random shit on their tinder

>>2819697
I hate airbnb. Not cheaper, plus you have to tiddy up the place before checkout on top of paying a cleaning fee

>>2819722
>I recommend avoiding listings where the host has a bunch of extra rules or seems insane or there's not clear pictures of every room you will be using or there's no reviews at all.
How much of a red flag is that?
I want to book the basecamp in Dortmound

>>2826050
>plus you have to tiddy up the place
You have to grow boobs just to use airbnb these days? What a scam.

>>2827736
>How much of a red flag is that?
which part?
its up to you if you want to deal with a super-fastidious airbnb host who expects zero drops of pee on the toilet seat, no crumbs anywhere, trash taken out, sheets and towels put in a precise location etc.
but if you go for the ones with very few pictures you will be staying at a flophouse

>>2819697
I no longer use Airbnb specifically, because of a nasty dispute with an unscrupulous host who tried to stick my family with a bunch of charges for fictitious damage (we think he was just trying to renovate the place), but I have used it and other apartment-rental sites many, many times over the years.

The only indisputable advantage over hotels is more space. As I’m usually traveling with my wife and kids, and sometimes with additional extended family members or as a large group with multiple families, multiple bedrooms, bathrooms, and a kitchen are often must-haves, and private pools or extensive grounds are desirable.

Whole apartments or villas/houses we’ve rented (never used the platforms to rent a room in someone’s place) have always been a better deal for the amount of space we’ve had than whatever equivalent (suites, “family rooms,” multiple rooms, etc.) we’d get from a hotel; if not, we just use hotels. And with the exception of our one really bad experience, which turned me off of Airbnb forever, I’ve never found the additional rules or fees egregious. But the quality of accommodations isn’t necessarily inherently superior, unless you’re splashing out on a flashy villa after a lifetime in budget hotels, and there’s usually much less service.

>>2820638
>yes they HAVE toilet paper and paper towels but the quality sucks you are not getting bounty and charmin unless you bring it
Why would I care about the quality of the paper towels? I want a comfy bed in a low-noise environment. IDGAF if one single paper towel can absorb all the piss I dribble on the floor or if it takes two or even three.

>>2828136
because shitty paper towels suck at getting moisture off of dishes and are uncomfortable to wipe your face with
>low-noise environment
a lot of airbnbs are located in noisy areas you have to be real careful with that